Uncommonly early 8x10-inch black and white glossy portrait, boldly signed and inscribed in black fountain pen in the 1930s. In fine condition, with one mild background bend and faint silvering to the darker areas, all invisible when the photo is viewed head-on. Charming, sardonic, impeccably dressed English star David Niven snagged an Oscar for Separate Tables (1958) and was elsewhere memorable in Dodsworth (1936), Thank You, Jeeves! (1936), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), Wuthering Heights (1939), The Bishop’s Wife (1947), The Toast of New Orleans (1950), The Moon Is Blue (1953), Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), My Man Godfrey (1957), Please Don’t Eat the Daisies (1960), The Guns of Navarone (1961), The Pink Panther (1963), Eyes of the Devil (1966), the James Bond flick Casino Royale (1967), horror’s Old Drac (1974), Murder by Death (1974), Death on the Nile (1976), Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), and Curse of the Pink Panther (1983).

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